In my opinion - sin: what our wrong actions stem from and what cuts us off from God is...
a desire to live without God - or the dependence that brings about a heart connection with a Divine Spirit, connecting us to the Source of Life.
Its Adam and Eve's act of choosing the tree of the knowledge of good and evil over walking with God. Its choosing good principles and or bad principles without a heart connection or worship of the one who gave us the freedom to pursue them.
Its anything that takes highest priority in our life other then God.
Separation can simply mean giving Godly principles more focus and attention then God Himself - making his principles into an idol - which is how religion happens and it may be the egg Pharisees hatch from.
Its - Like John 5:39 says: its reading the bible and thinking that by doing so we have life. This is a common one for us religious people.
Jesus says that none of these things will give us the Life He wants to give. The only way we can have that is by coming to Him just as we are - and learning how to live there - receiving our Life from him.
If we are not changed from the inside out then we are not changed at all, we become a nice looking 'white washed tomb full of dead man's bones'.
Great post Dave. I was praying one morning early in my bed before getting up and I was asking the Lord why His people were not inheriting the promises.
ReplyDeleteHis response was somewhat of a surprise to me. He said to me first of all that the promises are made to Jesus not me, and that only as I abide in Him do I inherit (inherit being the key word) the promises. (our life is hid in Christ with God). The next thing He said to me was really surprising, He said to me the reason why my people do not inherit the promises is because they do not know the difference between Sin, Transgression, and Iniquity. He gave me the verse Exodus 34:5-7. and revealed to me the definitions of each. He also revealed to me that when we abide in adam (refusing to reckon ourselves crucified with Christ)and just trust him only for forgiveness, than we inherit the iniquity from adam as well as all things flesh related from our parents and grandparents both good and evil of their (both sides of the same coin from a cursed tree)and become stuck in a transgression loop of rebellion trusting ourselves for salvation (ongoing)and we come to the place Paul describes in Romans 7:16-24 and never experience the true liberty of walking in and controlled and led by the Holy Spirit, Romans 8. Even though we are forgiven we are not cleansed or our leprosy and we become stuck. We must walk in the Light to be cleansed, 1 John 1:7. Why we must be cleansed is because as worshipers we must be able to approach the throne of God with a cleansed conscience by the blood of Jesus, free from shame, guilt, Hebrews 10:2 and Hebrews 9:14-28 and embracing the light and not drawing back, Hebrews 10:38,39.
other supporting scripture:
ReplyDeleteJob 31:33
"Have I covered my transgressions like Adam,By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
Job 7:21
"Why then do You not pardon my transgression And take away my iniquity?
Job 11:6
And show you the secrets of wisdom!For sound wisdom has two sides Know then that God forgets a part of your iniquity.
Leviticus 26:40
If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me
Numbers 14:19
" Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
Joshua 22:17
'Is not the iniquity of Peor enough for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although a plague came on the congregation of the LORD,
Psalm 32:2
How blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity,And in whose spirit there is no deceit
Psalm 119:133
Establish my footsteps in Your word,And do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.
Isaiah 6:7
He touched my mouth with it and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away and your sin is forgiven."
Jeremiah 33:8
ReplyDelete'I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against Me and by which they have transgressed against Me.
Notice here He says cleanse and Pardon iniquity, pardoning a sentence of Death. Death are the wages of sin.
Daniel 9:24
[ Seventy Weeks and the Messiah ] "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.
Zechariah 3:4
He spoke and said to those who were standing before him, saying, " Remove the filthy garments from him " Again he said to him, "See, I have taken your iniquity away from you and will clothe you with festal robes.
Being clothed or putting on Christ and removing the filthy garments of the iniquity we inherited as well as continued in it ourselves. is the way to walk in righteousness, holliness, and truth by the Spirit.
Sin could be forgivin and atoned for by an offering to be brought to the priest becuase sin in hebrew and Greek were missing the mark. Trangression by the mouth of 2 or 3 witnesses, caused the trangressor to be put to death. Death in the new testament for a christian is someone who knows forgiveness but lives in a trangression loop, being stuck, and experiences death in seperation from the throne and presence of God. People fall into the endless loop of transgress because they are clothed with iniquity (in Adam)instead of putting on Christ.
read this carefully:
Romans 7 (amplified)
1 DO YOU not know, brethren--for I am speaking to men who are acquainted with the Law--that legal claims have power over a person only for as long as he is alive?
2 For [instance] a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies, she is loosed and discharged from the law concerning her husband.
3 Accordingly, she will be held an adulteress if she unites herself to another man while her husband lives. But if her husband dies, the marriage law no longer is binding on her [she is free from that law]; and if she unites herself to another man, she is not an adulteress.
the first 3 verses were written not so much for marriage advice but for the understanding of the next verse 4.
4 Likewise, my brethren, you have undergone death as to the Law through the [crucified] body of Christ, so that now you may belong to Another, to Him Who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.